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THE
SOCIAL
(AND FINANCIAL
RISE OF THE
PHOTOGRAPHER
BY
EVE
PERRICK
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1956, {
It's BEATON who takes Garbo to No. Ten THE BBC BUMPS
BARON who was going with the Duke BEAUCHAMP who married the P.M.'s girl
ISS GRETA GARBO, that somewhat tiresome lady who gets more publicits making a song-and-dance out of shubalag publivity Can any other film star, past or present, takes tem with the Prime Minister's wife at No. 10.
And who goes along to introduce Miss Garbo to Lady Elen? Why, Mr Cecil Beaton. And who is Mr Benton? Why, the Well- Known Photographer,
is
Mr Beaton, of course, well-known for other talents.
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He is n poppet. JI [wp- sonality, a dandy. designer of lush and lavish costumes and sets for lush
and lavish theatrical ductions.
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He is also an author, ami, in fact, his "Who's Who'
The
entry puts "writer" at head of the considerable list of his considerable achieve. ments.
80 GUINEAS Nevertheless, Mr Benton is still regarded as, the top photographer here at time when photographers have never been so highly regarded by the public and so highly rewarded by their clients.
Mr Beaton's services to litera- may be Aure and the theatre much apprecisted, but a 80 gr. a sitting (including bairt dozen prints), what he makes on
ARMSTRONG JONES
THE NEW ARRIVAL
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FRENCH PHOTO-FATHER
must
provide
living
cumiera
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BEATON, HERE WITH MARILYN
ased on all the newspapers and magazines every year, end to years old and looks like some- end-1 don't know how it would body's white-haired mother end (Don't bother to count, I She L. In fact. assure you it would be an awful lot of photographs.)
Antony Beau- champ's mother, which maker mother-in-law to Sorah Churchill.
Behind every advertising campaign these days there is a Yet it is her recognised skill picture of a pretty girl, от with the camera, not her family handsome man and behind connections, which have brought every girl and man. there's another man with a camera.
When those men with the cameras get to the top of that particular tree, the view is A pleasing one indeed.
Young David Oline-he's 27 started five years ago and did no good at all for 18 months. One group of pictures of Barbara Goalen put him right in tho
picture too.
He's now making about £10,000 a year (out of which he has to pay his staff of 15).
Peter Clarit, another of the foremost fashion photographers. No lives in grent style (and in who, naturally, has both a town most good house and a country place, was a manner to which
rapidly heard Are photographers
To say the other day: becoming accustomed} iri his Shall 1 use the station wagon
atki Country house in Wilshire
or the Bentley?" lown house
Pelistans And Julin French (the daddy of them all?) hus 3,000 4,000 glamour pictures published every year to a correspondingly gay tung on the cash register.
WOMEN TOO
Jus Place.
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falang people's pictures. seems, is tire clean work if you con get it. And when you get t. it pays off in both cash int varhet.
Burt
perhaps, Was
The
man who usert his camera to Success in the glossy
social
mugs- advantage, zines brings Norman Parkinson a life of travel to romantic
the greatest He became both Court photo- grapher and Court favourite. places. He's been all over the
Surprisingly, though, it didn't take him very fur frater The tealing of gold. He made friends mvere vasily than $14 mude money.
It was only in those last few years betture but death, when he deigned to step down to the non-U levels nú television and to advertising. that he started esty in,
and
THE VIEW The main money is in fashion commercial photography.
If you Inid all the pholographs
three Prime Ministers of Eng- land-Sir Anthony, Sir Winston, and Lord Attloo-to her Park
Lane studio to alt
no
Established photographers longer need influence to get by. They're loved for themselves alone.
"People Are is the headline
feature
Talking About”
of 0 regular
PIUSOS
CLARK WHICH CAR ↑
THERE WITH GARBO.
INTO VERY HIGH EXPLOSIVE
B
By Les Armour
London BBC, said next morning RAVERY is not tho that British cars were
outstanding charac strictly unbeatable.
teristic of the British A national newspaper Broadcasting Corporation, swiftly interviewed another Indeed, the relevant acts of random selection who de- Parliament as much as tell cided, 12 to 2, that British It that discretion must cars were just fine, always be the better part of valour.
Still, the television pro- gramme, "Panorama,"
Nasty Scrap
Now just why all this walked straight Into as omotion? You don't get sticky a barrage of verbal citizens slanging one high explosive as you could another over the goodness imagine and never flinched or badness of British high at all.
compression air drills or They asked a fairly ran- even British Kewing dom selection of citizens machines (both, by the what they thought about way; good sellers in the British cars. It happened world's market places). that what this selection of Vacuum cleaners do not citizens thought was not evoke so-much as a snort, much.
But mention motor cars
The Society of Auto- and the citizens rush to the motive Manufacturers barricades before you can Issued its firing orders say automatic transmission, before the Director-General The BBC clearly, thought of the BBC could say as the auto question was im- much as "What, ho?”
portant enough to risk 1 Sir Anthony Eden, very nasty scrap. though scrupulously
Part of an answer, of avoiding any mention of the course, is that British cars are important to the national economy and might be, more important still.
William Hickey
THE PREMIER'S NEPHEW SHOWS
LIBERACE AND MOM AROUND
T
London
This year, buyers throughout the world will buy an estimated 2,400,000 of them. of those, 250,000 will bo
.But 250,000 of the 350,000 will bo
British
sold in the Commonwealth, where they compete on slightly special terms,
Culture Object
In short, the British share of the wholly competitive world markot la not very large. Potentially, it could be much We are very good "It's a lovely iden," he said us.
friends. | bigger, and everybody from the to me. 1 should very much But I cannot discuss plans for editor of The Times down to THAT toothy gift to the like to meet Sir George and ask the wedding."
my dustman has a theory as to world of music, his advice on the matter.
Well, is it on or off?
why it is not. Liberace, paid a visit
He refused to answer. And
But "I was thinking of something
that does not quite to the House of
lovely embodying a pluto, candelabru,
senora, Munding explain the emotion
Many alongside, refused to discuss her other things are just as Import- violin." this week.
KVENCİ A
future.
ant and Just as troublesome.
Tho My guess: It is off. Definitely.
answer-If you go ankl look at the Motor Show appears
the automobile is more than a pleca
Commons
near by.
be
Liberace on his very happy to actyise Mr
eopt-of-arms,
10
meet
the
the
to
He kept his hust, Tory Said 57-year.old Sir George,
"I shall MP Mr John Eden, the stated Prime Minister's nephew,
MAN IN A HURRY walling for 35 minutes. But i am afraid it would be
ile explained the es impossible to have it registered E voice at the other end of apologetically: a lutry driver here seeing that he is of Italian
Telephone was that of had crushed into the back of birth.
We can deal only with A Man in a Hurry, Could I oce hia car.
him d. three o'clock? "Make It British nationale."
It reflects the two o'clock and 's a
depi." "Gave me quite a shock," the Would he like
life. So. .up two flights of maestro of the keyboard told Liberace? "I don't think so me.
"But nothing Was now," he parried. "After all, he states in Piccadilly to an office of with a littered desk. Behind it, demaged and no one was hurt." is not exactly my line
Freezing heartily: 18-tone country. But I think he is a
Wolf Mankowitz, antique dealer, great personality."
pottery expert, journalist, au- film producer, TV
"Hello." he said. "excuse my damne cold. Hope you don't Wolf is just back from South Africa where he has spent the Test six weite working on film script about Illicit diamond smuggling and dealings,
Liberace word
a black
were
sonality.
world, keeps an apartment In New York-darts off to the Caribbean or India от South Africa, just to pose lovely ladies gainst beautiful backgrounds.
which pur-military-style serge coat with ******** an Vogue, and click his clever camera.
lu deal with newsworthy white epaulettes and white belt. OFF TOO Happy in his work? I should ports
Mom was there too, of say so.
topics and personalities.
not saying much. THE Diplomatic wedding-to-be "Few women have made the Now people are talking about course, but
of the season is off. Tony
Armstrong Her feet, she explained, 25-year-old
The wedding between the catch Arude
among the lensmen.
son of the Countess of hurting her,
beautiful There's Dorothy Wilding who Jones,
Costa Minister for Rosse, nephew of Oliver Messel. Mr Eden took them round the Rica in London-Senora Vir. takes pictures of Court und
ex-Cambridge cox, who takes House, explained Commons pro- ginin de Gallegos, 37, Society.
of the people that cedure, pointed out facts of the pictures And
and the junior Minister Florence thore's Mrs
historical interest.
fcom
36-year-old Uruguay, Entwistle, professionally known people are talking about,
Liberace wis fascinated, Senur as "Vivienne," who takes
Dr Don Leslie Close- didn't even seem to notice the Pozzo (say it Potho). Lures of
whispers and nudges of other Their fellow-diplomats CX- sightseers.
pected the wedding this month.
plc-
OVERTONES everybody. She is 00
Talking of himself, though, young Mr Armstrong Jones saya
HOW DO YOU HEAR ME?
LISTEN — IT'S A SECRET!
much
As they went into the library They knew, and I knew, that loudly: "Look, I am no longer he murmured: "Just like some. the lovely Minister at the Court a society photographer. I
thing out of Charles Dickens," of St James's was very haven't taken my camera to A Later, in the chamber of the in love." party for four years. I am. If House of Lords, he whispered to She and her fance had, in anything, an up-and-coming Mom: "Isn't it absolutely fact, told their governments of
theatrical photographer.”
So far he has upped to the magnificent."
His
include
Ho
their intention to wed, had ap- plied for permission to do so as Joon as possible,
rung
be
that
of machinery. It is what the anthropologists
call a "culture object."
The British car looks British
British way
of It has the quiet air of civilisation, the undssuming neatness, the compact preciseness which the British value 50 highly.
Indeed, that is perhaps part of its trouble, рет
In Vancouver, it looks just slightly out of place, Los Angeles, under a blazing like a bowler hat, In
sun and surrounded by pastel. coloured buildings and glaring Neon signs, it is
a thing of wonder, indeed.
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"A lot of fact, rome fiction... or chall we say for safety. lot of fiction and a little fact..
.a
4
Marked Man
The man who drives a British Back in London to write car in such a place is marked a man who is slightly tries of articles for the Daily as
tastes are not Express. And in a few days he different, whose Bies to Moscow to dicuss copy-quite thote of his oeighbours, right in the Soviet Union for There are many people who British writers.
like to look like that, and that is why Arms -like Jaguar, which accentuato This point, The Man in a Hurry refuses have sales managers who sleep to ca: during the day, says: at night, "When I've work to do, I never But the majority do not like
And that is why some people suggest, now. -and that British car. makers
make people's
married, the junior Minister of job, or semanting a |
Cars which nt cultures not
told me fuciully: "I've another country she would have he poured a large brandy.pics of other people's : coro, “
By CEDRIC CARNE
extent of doing the "stilis" at la mere 25s. a shot of "View His delight seemed genuine. But true love never
the Bridge," "Family This, home ui night; he if you are deaf?" Mr ReederFrom HEN I first visited come
It turned out,
was smoothly not even in the Diplo cat huch. It wastes 12 hours a to look different. Reunion," "Hotel Paradiso," and Liberaco'a her asked.
-ürst chance to sto matic Corps, Costa Rica pointed week: Eat lunch when you have Mr Reeder he had frequently forgot to give
the housekeeping money. In Just as a quiet voice can hide (his first) "Separate Tables."
sepora that if she 10ke when the sights of London unimpeded out to the portraits laryngitis. His short, Angela had a bad deal, an aggressive outlook, so a loud
Alec by screaming fans. Guinness, Dame Edith Evans,
He sipped a coffee into which voice had been no more But who was afraid of people one can hide a man's untureness
Claire Bloom. And, just Last
to quli
her life in the Diploma- spent all and
time aince I anxielles. than a rusty whisper. I say "I told you so."
had no lunch, ofther, wettled for my week, his 21st birthday picture It required
tje Corps. tremendous a
"Again," I said, "occasionally of the Duke of Kent was the one arrived in my hotel or my car,
"a brandy and black coffee, could not tell if he was
but cars that fit in be quite a
the other And that would to keep up
bigh-pitcher.or low-pitched
What oloe was Wolf doing appearances,
In personally selected and issued by It's like being in prison.
fellow's Place, saying Colonel Nasser or
to hug the secret to herself vológ, can have a definite the Duke to mark the occasion, Earlier, the pianist was guest sacrifice her salary
If they ever take seriously to Diana Dors.
And this effort to prevent her- dignificance.”
lion of pounds of diamonds that (and they have in a very you Mr Armstrong Jones, so heat the Variety Club's luncheon penses account run into nearly South Africa? Handling mil-
£10,000 a year.
time says, is trying to live down those in the Savoy.
In the mall way already, of course) So I asked Dr Levile Close (£40,000 high social overtones of his Also there was someone will Pozzo-who looks like a Spanish palm of a hand). and think-
can expect even louder whom he may be corresponding editon of Clark Gable--If they ing of a new fashion that could you
London, and George Bollew, had finally decided on the date coloured
Europe: explosions, stones for Garter Frincipal King of Arms. of the wedding.
engage
Now he spoke out and clear.
"I'm doctor."
better,
thank
effort
do
How loud self from
out mean?" asked Mr Reeder, apricing eventually affected her voice.
SOUND BARRIER Soon, she could only speak. In a I thought of young Wilson, career. you, hoarse, very quiet voice.
whom I Enw last week.
If he la going to remain She came to see me because times when he spoke in
he doesn't stand his photographer the thought she had laryngitis. light, effeminate voice it even a chance. But nothing made her voice squeaked to the other side of better.
He normally had a pleasant valce. How many of us have?
People think that handwriting or even the lines on the palm of the hand are a clue to personality, but sometimes
I
HIGH WORDS
the voice can be a more her parents soluable gudo to a man's or woman's character.
*Is there such a thing as the clear up. paychology of voices? Reader asked,
Mr
Some
the sound barrier,
When I asked him about his father, Wilson's facial expres Only when she confided in ion darkened, He expressed gympathy, did her anyngitis woopstently, was
and their
profound
of his father, a Mr Know -All and bul ed his wife "You mean people who have and son. dark secrets may have quiet, Wilson did not wish to have hardly audible voices? Why, anything to do with him. "He's know a few men and women obnoxious," he said. like that," said Mr Roeder.
In fact, Wilson so disliked hia But quiet voices must not be father that, unknown, femaled interpreted in that way, alone.
·his "own, We all
know How when we high because a low voice would are angry, we tend to shout, represent the father he hated Angela...... Blackwell was 18 Sometimes people keep their
m-high or low voles can
SOFT AND-LOW-
“The way you speak...loud or soft, with a high voice or How it all means some_ thing
I said.
Then I told him about Mrs Blackwell.
they
when she married a mad much volcos continually low and au) occasionally suggest, in a man older than herself. Her parents dued because, basically objected strongly and her are aggressive types who, with woman, which parent, he or riends tried to dissuade her out being aware of 1 are hiding she most admined, wid
hid Boon ng after the- kontyrnoon their fundamental niggräkston, pl
*her husband startedly, drinking my “What about, jabe gainer, sorttrorsumat v
Why Frame (mer Luquid not the can who knout le you as
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Why? Because Liberace wants He told me: "All this publi- merit rings.
a coat-of-arms.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
WHAT IS HE DOING BUMPING HIS HEAD AGAINST.
THE WALL LIKE THAT?
elty has embarrassed, both of
MANDRAKE'S HYPNOTISM WORKSI
MANDRAKE, UNABLE TO SPEAK, PROJECTS A TELEPATHIC COMMAND
YOU WILL OBEY ME
I HEAR
MY WILL IS
AND OBEY-
STROUSER
at a
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